The phrase "an essential value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a principle or belief that is fundamental and important in a particular context.
Example: "Honesty is considered an essential value in our organization, guiding all our interactions and decisions."
Alternatives: "a fundamental principle" or "a core belief".
Privacy is absolutely an essential value in a democracy.
As an artist, this is an essential value that can never be given up.
This surface concentration is an essential value for predicting microorganism growth but cannot be evaluated by experiments.
"For the Colorado economy it is an essential value," says Mark Falcone, a Denver-based developer and board member for the Nature Conservancy's Colorado chapter.
And, we champion intellectual freedom and the courage to hold, articulate and defend and debate ideas, whether popular or not, as an essential value of the university.
Maintaining such a culture throughout the company is an essential value at Dow, the company's chief technology officer, William Banholzer, tells Science Careers in an interview.
Burns is both a symbol of the essential value of non-commercial television and an example of what can be achieved in terms of quality and ambition.
Greece, Italy, Spain and Morocco have even asked Unesco to designate the diet as an "intangible piece of cultural heritage," a testament to its essential value as well as its potential extinction.
"These schools and districts make a strong commitment to music education in the core curriculum supporting its essential value to a well-rounded education for every child," Mary Luehrsen, NAMM Foundation executive director, said in a statement.
But its essential value proposition — a higher-performing, high-margin product — has not changed.
Sure, maybe it would be nice to understand their rocket technology or ask if they can tell us what really happens at the center of a black hole, but the essential value of extraterrestrial contact would be to calibrate ourselves.
